We're excited to see the launch of the Premiere issue of Sierra Style Weddings! We're even more excited to see that several of our 2006 couples were featured in this first issue. What a better way to memoralize their wedding day - to be in print. Each featured couple will be receiving an issue shortly, so watch for it in your mail.

We've added a new feature to our website - the Featured Wedding Album section. Under the "Albums" section you not only see some samples from last year, but as we create album drafts from this year, we'll be adding new Featured wedding albums. Check out Marti and Brad's album as our first featured wedding album!

We met Henry and Tina last night at Aioli's downtown for a few scrumptious appetizers before heading outside for some engagement photos. It had cooled off just enough for us to have a pleasant evening. We stopped at several random spots in downtown Sacramento (alleys included) before finishing up our engagement photo shoot at the Capital Park. Here are few sneak peak engagement photos.

Yesterday Alyssa and Jacob were married in the Capital World Peace Rose Garden followed by a wedding reception at the Sacramento Grand Ballroom. I just love Alyssa and Jacob. Alyssa and I have many things in common - one of which is attention to detail. Alyssa planned and created the most spectacular day for her wedding. Cory and I stopped by the Ballroom first thing and captured these few detail shots before meeting up with the girls. Alyssa had a candy bar for their guests - made up of all of her and Jacob's favorite candies. Her mom did all the bouquets and floral decorations - they were awesome!Something else that Alyssa and I have in common is our love of words. She went to great lengths to share her story of how Jacob proposed while in Italy last Christmas and added it to their ceremony program. For favors, she gave each guest a small book of her favorite poems with a bookmark of an engagement picture.Her friend Lisa created the most amazing scrapbook as a gift for Alyssa - documenting friendships and stories to last forever.Alyssa wanted some traditional elements too - she wanted to have something new, something old, something borrowed, and something blue. Her dress was made by Miosa Couture (the "new"), her brooch on her bouquet was borrowed, her wedding band was her grandmother's (the "old"), and she wore the most terrific blue shoes.The ceremony was beautiful. The String Quartet performed as the bride walked down the aisle. After the vows and rings were exchanged, Alyssa and Jacob released doves into the sky.Don't you just love the feathers on Alyssa's dress?! I think the sunset light was perfect. As Teresa and I were grabbing family and wedding party pictures at the park, Cory headed over the reception to capture the guests and the surprise entertainment - a belly dancer. She had the crowd up and dancing.We stopped by for a shot in front of Tony's Deli (owned by Jacob's family) and strolled next door to get a shot in front of her dressmaker's shop.The guests signed a silver platter in lieu of a guestbook. What a great idea!The cake by Sheldon's was super unique - they used pictures we took at their engagement and they were placed around the cake. The ribbing on the cake matched the lace of Alyssa's dress.Alyssa didn't leave any detail unattended - she included small touches in the restrooms at the Ballroom. I'm glad I carried a camera to the restroom!By the end of the night, the candy bar had been a huge hit. As you see the gummy bears were a big favorite!I'll leave you with a few images of Alyssa and Jacob during their first dance. Congratulations you two!I like to give a shout out to some of the other vendors we worked with last night - Phill from Sheffield Multimedia, Mike from Mr. DJ, and Sharon from Weddings by Design.

Check out Alyssa and Jacob's Sneak Peak on our website. Under the "Clients" page use the password of "Alyssa_jacob".

We had the pleasure of doing a fashion photo shoot of Kay Rose last night. Kay is about to release her new CD. We set out to photograph based on her lyrics of "Old Oak Tree".

"Down to the old oak tree and lay my body down.And hear the rustling of the leaves, it's such a pretty sound.I'm wondering how on earth I'll fill this whole I've found.Oh maybe love is the answer, love makes the world go round."

We shot on the ground, laying on the dirt, under the most amazing Oak tree ever, and Kay had fun throwing leaves in the air. We hope you enjoy her sound as much as we do.